From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 19 18:32:21 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBABABB2 for ; Sun, 19 May 2013 18:32:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@gmx.com) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6FD2FF for ; Sun, 19 May 2013 18:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.44.139] ([46.228.204.146]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MB2G8-1Uo4YE1Nqu-009xo7; Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:14 +0200 Message-ID: <51991AAD.4020201@gmx.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:13 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Subject: Re: does ifconfig see netgraph bridges? References: <5198E85A.9000702@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <5198E85A.9000702@a1poweruser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:z/+EuGbfQwM4WmssVLydUQ8F4/YmvMw0WBMVauAZrGqbKqk544n VfX36yEos5sWjJdrLxl3Lohm1XzjE46/0Z73It//pnwuWNc7kkkcJ4FhMRn/9lkVNMOFB83 nuDKLM0jJzQKo763uQwvbSIWkqWDTkuDbScJ8EvWL+T9OkFualG7Op4Koi9z3NVmKNqEWDg GcBKURVfF2Sq+Ti5wo2DA== Cc: "" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 18:32:22 -0000 Hi, On 05/19/2013 04:57 PM, Joe wrote: > I create a ng bridge but issuing ifconfig does not show the bridge. > Running 9.1-RELEASE. > Is this a bug? ifconfig is not supposed to know about a netgraph bridge. So this is by design. Also, since the bridge is supposed to be transparent to the network i wouldn't know what kind of information would be relevant to ifconfig, that is the netgraph bridge has no MAC, no IP etc. What info are you after? Nikos